Alphonse feiedeick



(No Model.)

' A. PRIEDRIGK.

LEAD SASH BAR. Iva-271,696. Patented Feb. 6, 1883.

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siren STATES P TENT OFFICE.

ALPHONSE FRIEDRIOK OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

LEAD SASH-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,696, dated February 6, 1883. Application filed October 10, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALPHONSE FRtEDRmK, a citizen of the United states, residing at Nos. 16 and 18 Hoyt street, Brooklyn. in the county of Kings and State of NewYork, have invented a new and useful improvement in lead sashbars used in the art of gla'zingorjoiniug plain or ornamental glass of various and uneven thicknesses in either straight, curved, or irregular lines in making decorated windows, screens, and panels; and 1 do hereby declare the following to he a full, clear, and exact description ot the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Heretofore plain and ornamental glass has been glazed, wherelead sash are used, by means of bars rolled out of lead in such manner as to form a groove of uniform s'ze and shape in each side of the bar to receive the glass. When glass of various and uneven thicknesses is to be glazed by means of the sash-bars now in use the groove which is of proper size to receive the thick glass is too large to receive and secure the thin glass, or vice versa.

My invent-ion consists of a continuous sashbar, to be rolled out of lead, soft metal, or composition of metals, so as to form, when viewed on section, a flat or halt-round bar with two flanges extending from the center of the. flat bar, or from the center of the flatside of the hat f-round bar, as the case may be, thus forming a rabbet on each side of the two flanges to receive the glass. After the glass of various and uneven' thicknesses has been placed in the rabhets thus formed the flanges are then turned down, pressed firmly to the glass, and the edges of the flanges trimmed ofl' so as to show a uniform projection over the several thicknesses of glass. The seam or joint between tile two flanges is then tobe floated over and soldered in the usual mannerof soldering, thus making the glazing uniform, safe, and tight.'

Figure 1 in the accompanyingdrawings represents the two forms of lead sash-bar now in use. Fig. 2 represents the improved forms of lead sash-bars ready for use. Figs. 3 and, L represent thick glass, to, and thin glass, 11, glazed by means of the improved lead sashbar 6, in which d represents the flange, which is trimmed off so as to cover the thin glass the samedistance and be uniform with the flange f, covering the thick glass. The solder between the flanges is represented by c.

I am aware that flexible soft metal has been applied to heavy skylight-rafters in such mahner as to leave two vertical margins between the panes of glass, as the lat ter arelaid. and to be turned down upon the glass, as in English Patents Nos. 2,830 and 3,09l of 1880; but such I do not claim, as they are not my invention; but,

Having fully described my in vention,its object, and the manner of using the same, what I desire to claim and secure by Letters Patent The sash-bar a, formed with rabbets at each side of a middle rib, and with flexible flanges f 01 upon the rib, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

ALPHONSE FRIEDRIOK.

Witnesses:

FRED. E. LOOKWOOD, JAMES P. STEVENSON. 

